I watched an interview with Paul Rudd where he described Robinson’s process and it really cleared things up for me. He said Robinson took the script and the first thing he did was “take all the jokes out”. He thinks the funniest moments in movies and TV are never the ones that are intentionally trying to be funny. So he builds insane characters and situations that are comedic but doesn’t actually make jokes. Obviously it doesn’t work for everyone but I will say the single hardest time I have laughed in a movie theater was this year, watching Friendship, and I was the only person in the theater laughing at the “joke”. I laughed so hard and long I caused cascading laugh reactions to me laughing so hard